Caught our first juvenile salmon of the season this weekend! We found dozens of these little chum salmon fry in the North Arm of the Lower Fraser River yesterday, the first juvenile salmon of the season to migrate downstream into the estuary where they likely spend a few days or weeks before moving on to the ocean!
Within a month juvenile salmon – including Harrison Chinook – are already making their way over the breach we have created in the Steveston Jetty! This project will benefit all juvenile salmon…
Starting our last week of field work for the Fraser Connectivity Project for this season with some beach seining and fyke netting in the blazing heat! Caught a lonely juvenile coho and a few Chinook this morning still using the estuary at the end of July as adult salmon begin to return!
Raincoast Applied Conservation Science Lab Department of Geography – University of VictoriaAnticipated Start Date: September 01, 2017Closing date: July 26, 2017 Download this job posting as a PDF The Lab Manager will join a productive and collegial team of applied conservation scholars to coordinate many aspects of daily research and lab logistics. The position is…
The Raincoast team spends another day sampling at our west breach of the Steveston jetty. Here we have our fyke net strung across…
Putting lessons into practice! The Fraser Connectivity Project team started our marsh vegetation surveys this afternoon thanks to the id clinic we attended last week, put on by the very knowledgeable Dan Stewart. Thanks Ducks Unlimited-BC for the invite!!
2020 has seen record low returns of sockeye to the Fraser River.